It takes all kinds . . .

[Chicken Boo]

I have been a vegetarian for many years. I do eat eggs and cheese and drink milk (and make what I think are reasonable efforts to purchase the least destructive products). I find myself often defending my choice of diet. The most frequent attack is looking for some inconsistency in my food/life style choices that is used to point out what a horrible hypocrite I am. "Those shoes are leather"; no, they are are all man-made materials. "Plants are alive"; but they have no nervous system. "Eggs are potential chickens"; no, they are not fertilized and cannot become a chicken. I am amazed at how many times I have had to explain the last one and how many time "intelligent" people walk away convinced I am wrong/delusional/lying. "All eggs are unborn chicks."

Please do not be judgmental about the young woman who is trying to do the best she can to reduce her harm to other beings in the face of a society that is intolerant of people who think a little bit differently, have different values (even if they really do not hurt anyone) or makes a real effort to be a better person. We are all learning as we go.

 

[tabsmonsters]

My mom is kinda strange too but in a different way. She refuses to eat eggs from chickens that free range. Why you ask? Because they eat bugs when they free range.

I just don't get it. Its not like you can see the bugs in the yolk. I told her I would rather have eggs from happy birds than from ones that will never know what grass or a bug is. People (including myself)are just weird!

Different strokes for different folks and all that.

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

Very sticky wicket. i honestly do struggle every day with food choices, trying to make the ones that seem the least harmful. And don't even get me started about trying not to buy goods made in China.

When did things get so complicated?

 

[WoodlandWoman]

I could understand a person eating honey and not drinking milk. The ethical problem most people have with milk isn't about the milk or the cow being milked, it's about the calf. To get milk, a cow is bred and gives birth to a calf. If it's a female, it may go on to become part of a dairy herd. If it's a male, it's most likely going to be eaten. Maybe as a veal calf. It's a bit like roosters. There are just way more produced than are needed for breeding, so they end up being eaten. Some people have concerns about all those excess roosters produced, too, that are destroyed as chicks. Especially with commercial flocks that are replaced all the time.

As for the OP's friend, I'm having a little trouble following her logic. Maybe she just needs a little time to think this over. I'm sure she needs more information on how the chickens are being kept that are providing the store eggs. Maybe she's picturing them wandering around a big, grassy field. If she still doesn't want to eat fertilized eggs after she has more time to think this over, hopefully she will find a better source than store eggs.

 

[BettyR]

An older gentleman that used to buy eggs from my mom on a regular basis noticed one day that she didn’t have a roo running with her flock. He informed her that he wouldn’t be back because he only eats fertile eggs. It seems he thinks if they aren’t fertile then they don’t have the same nutritional value.